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Voices and visions

Fawcett, Edgar (1847-1904)

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TO A COQUETTE

They laud to-night your dark eyes' diamond thrall,
Your lily of hand or rose of lip. ... And yet
Some trick of lamplight on the gilded wall
Has made your shadow a hag's gaunt silhouette.
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